Word: bay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleek, 2,200-ton yacht Lapu Lapu knifed across Tokyo Bay on a trial run at 17 knots, and in her wake eddied a succession of troubles for Carlos Garcia, President of the Philippine Republic. One of 15 ocean-going vessels to be built by the Japanese as war reparations to the Philippines, the Lapu Lapu* cost $2,500,000, is 275 feet long and powered by diesel engines. She will carry a crew of 92, and has room for 48 passengers...
Hillsdale, the four-year-old bay colt that is suddenly the hottest piece of horseflesh in U.S. racing, flashed across the finish line to win the $177,150 Santa Anita Maturity. In a box near the finish line, a huge bulk of a man broke down and cried for joy. At 3:30 next morning, flushed with triumph and celebration, Clarence Whitted ("Big Smitty") Smith, 40, wandered out to Hillsdale's barn, delivered a rambling oration to his horse...
...still shone in Monte Carlo, sailboats skittered about the bay, the gambling casino still earned enough francs to pay its share of the costs of government. To show their unconcern with events and their trust in their subjects, Prince Rainier and Princess Grace left their pink palazzo to attend a gala Monte Carlo performance of La Bonne Soupe, the touring Parisian comedy hit about prostitutes. Both their Serene Highnesses found it "very amusing...
Trials were conducted among the craggy islands in Casco Bay, near Portland, Me., where dense schools of herring drift through twisted channels. Traditionally, Maine fishermen float long nets out into the channels to shunt the herring into the waiting traps. But such nets have drawbacks. They need constant maintenance, they cannot be extended across heavily traveled waterways, they are often carried away by tidal currents...
...year conflict, Castro moved his GHQ out of the Oriente mountain fastness to a site near the town of Baire, 42 miles from Bayamo. Moving through the Oriente valleys, rebel columns filtered into half a dozen weakly garrisoned small towns, captured Caimanera (pop. 4,000), just across the bay from the U.S. Guantanamo naval base. In answer, the Cuban high command sent two frigates to shell Caimanera, planes to bomb the rebels wherever they showed themselves. Batista committed few troops. Whenever possible, the beleaguered garrisons pulled back; a few surrendered to the rebels. Though official communiques said little, there were...